Two different things. I guess this one works more like magic? But it's based off an Art. Arts need an ACRUS and an orbment to work, whereas magics natural, works differently, and limited to a small group of people.
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ARCUS is a comms device. It's small and portable, and you can put orbments -- like... little marbles, I guess? -- in it to use different Arts, depending on which orbments you're using. Vio said I can buy it back if I want the feel to be the same, but it'd be a voucher I could use somewhere else, you know?
[ trails doesn't explain SHIT apart from when it does and it explains so much i forget the explanation and circle back to trails doesn't explain SHIT ]
Exactly my point. Save a voucher, use it on something else. Everyone's happy, especially me with more vouchers.
[ thank you for your knowledge and understanding in these trying times WHERE ARE YOUR VACUUMS EREBONIA, YOU HAVE WAR MECHS ]
The script was three vouchers, and the healing shenanigan was six. If I add a voucher each week I think I can make the healing more potent too, which if people are gonna keep disappearing like you did, might not be a bad thing to have up my sleeve.
… I mean. I was assuming so, but you’re throwing all my assumptions off? People have been saying you get extra vouchers for voting correctly, and when I think about what I did the first week here — voting for Kaoruko, my task and talking to Vio, it adds up to the four I got that week.
But you did three things and got two vouchers.
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Vio confirmed you get vouchers for talking to your dorm leader, extra credit, for taking part in extra-curriculars (although she did say that was “sometimes”?), doing tasks … and for good behaviour, whatever that counts as. She didn’t actually confirm voting gets you vouchers.
I'm thinking extra credit probably counts for a lot more than we realize. That's the only thing I haven't done compared to everyone else who has gotten way more vouchers than me.
And here I thought doing all the tasks would get me a ton of vouchers.
... Maybe it does? I don't think we're gonna get exact answers out of the dorm heads -- Vio would tell me if we got extra vouchers for correct votes, like I said. You gonna see about doing extra credit this week and see if it changes anything?
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That'd probably make it too easy. I'm just trying to zero in on which one gives winter points now.
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[ hm. ]
By asking nicely? I normally have to use something to cast Arts, but here we are. Look Kitkat, no ARCUS. [ he waves his hands slightly. ]
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. . . what's an Arts.
What's an ARCUS? You're using words I've never heard of in that context before.
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... Ughhh. Arts are Arts. You cast them through the ACRUS. I can't really describe them any other way because that's the context?
But what I did I'd usually need something to help me do it. That thing being the ARCUS.
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Was the whole healing thing you did an. . . "Arts?" Because that seems more like magic to me.
And the ARCUS is the conduit? The catalyst?
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[ he folds his arms. ]
ARCUS is a comms device. It's small and portable, and you can put orbments -- like... little marbles, I guess? -- in it to use different Arts, depending on which orbments you're using. Vio said I can buy it back if I want the feel to be the same, but it'd be a voucher I could use somewhere else, you know?
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. . . okay. . .
[but the ARCUS, at least, mirrors technology she has back home, so. she knows what a comms device is!!!]
And yeah, that makes sense. If you can use the-- Art-- without the conduit, then why waste a voucher on a conduit, you know?
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Exactly my point. Save a voucher, use it on something else. Everyone's happy, especially me with more vouchers.
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Soooo. . . how much did the "script" and the "healing" thing cost you? That's two pretty big purchases.
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The script was three vouchers, and the healing shenanigan was six. If I add a voucher each week I think I can make the healing more potent too, which if people are gonna keep disappearing like you did, might not be a bad thing to have up my sleeve.
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. . .
Wait, so you had nine vouchers?
[KIND OF POUTING ABOUT THIS TBH]
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I didn't buy anything last week, don't sulk.
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I only got three last week, and two this week. How are you all earning so many?!
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2/2
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[grumble grumble grouch]
. . . I haven't done my extra credit, though.
[for REASONS]
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Do it then, it gets you a voucher.
Okay hold on, you did … debate and the clone fucking task? [ say it louder for the people on the other side of the dorm, crow ]
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[GROANS]
Yes. I did all four. . . clone tasks.
And I took part in the debate, too. I also went on that stupid little adventure.
[so why only two vouchers, seasonality. why!!]
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. . . but not for the right person.
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[she doesn't]
[know how vouchers work, really]
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But you did three things and got two vouchers.
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Vio confirmed you get vouchers for talking to your dorm leader, extra credit, for taking part in extra-curriculars (although she did say that was “sometimes”?), doing tasks … and for good behaviour, whatever that counts as. She didn’t actually confirm voting gets you vouchers.
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I'm thinking extra credit probably counts for a lot more than we realize. That's the only thing I haven't done compared to everyone else who has gotten way more vouchers than me.
And here I thought doing all the tasks would get me a ton of vouchers.
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That'd probably make it too easy. I'm just trying to zero in on which one gives winter points now.
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Yeah. I guess so.
[but she WON'T LIKE IT]
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